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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... dollar pushed past 111 yen after Japan's central bank said it would expand its vast monetary easing scheme and the United States released forecast-busting economic growth data. Japanese stocks clocked up gains of almost five per cent to sit at a seven-year ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... is fast running out of drivers. Though still holding on, growth in the two Uniteds - the United Kingdom and the United States - could be dragged down into the gutters... the Fed said so itself. But this time, it's a bit different. While the Arab Spring ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... on Thursday achieved its largest daily rise in almost two months on signs of continued low interest rates in the United States. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index added 55.4 points, or 1.06%, to 5,296.7 points. The broader All Ordinaries index gained 51.7 ...

Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... we are a legal creature of Congress and that we only have a mandate to concern ourselves with the interest of the United States"....and St. Louis Fed's James Bullard, "We're not going to make policy based on emerging-market volatility alone". I even ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... market has improved a little from its poor start but is still trading lower, after a sharp fall on markets in the United States and Europe overnight. The market slide was generated partly by an International Monetary Fund report that lowered its global ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... mixed US economic data amid worsening anxiety over global economic growth and the first confirmed Ebola case in the United States. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 238.19 points (1.40 per cent) to 16,804.71 on Wednesday. The broad-based S&P 500 ...

Catholic Super awards $90 million to US microcap fund

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
Catholic Superannuation Fund (CSF) has awarded a United States microcap equities fund with $90 million. The institutional award is the first investment to the Thomson Horstmann & Bryant (THB) US Micro Cap Fund. THB is a US-based fund manager with over ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher after markets in the United States and Europe lifted on Friday. CMC chief market analyst Ric Spooner said the local bourse had made a positive start. "It's quite a positive start given a pretty modest lead ...

MDAs allow small players to act as large instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... highlighted the importance of technology in managed accounts. She attributed the rise of managed accounts in the United States and other countries to a "perfect storm" of technology improvements and the global financial crisis, which damaged investors' ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... to those who looked for clues about the Fed's policy course in the near term," Briefing.com said. Meanwhile, the United States called on Russia to "immediately" withdraw a convoy of vehicles from Ukraine and warned of further international sanctions ...